Pedro Santana

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the Haitian rule, Pedro Santana, one of the leaders in the revolution, became the first president of the Dominican Republic.
On November 15, 1899, Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra was installed as president of the Dominican Republic for the first time, and he served until May 2, 1902, and during this administration he was responsible for jailing Fabio Fiallo, for publishing a subversive anti-government newspaper ‘the Free Flag’ which “eschewed foreign firms’ advertising as a revenue source.” Despite him being jailed by President Jimenes, Fiallo kept publishing this subversive newspaper until 1916, when the United States Marines, who governed, occupied and controlled the Dominican Republic at that time, jailed him again under hard labor conditions. …show more content…

President Francisco Hilario Henríquez y Carvajal, during the weakened term of his presidency, which was from July 31, 1916 to November 29, 1916, he fervently protested the occupation of the Dominican Republic by the United States, but United States President Wilson declared this occupation official in November of 1916, and at that point, President Henríquez left for Cuba. On July 24, 1924, Horacio Vásquez was installed as the 35th president of the Dominican Republic, and the Vásquez administration shines in Dominican history, as after the country's eight years of subjugation, Vásquez took care to respect the political and civil rights of the population. An upswing in the price of export …show more content…

There was some debatable legal basis for the move, which was approved by the Congress, but its enactment effectively invalidated the constitution of 1924 that Vásquez had previously sworn to uphold. Once the president had demonstrated his willingness to disregard constitutional procedures in the pursuit of power, some ambitious opponents decided that those procedures were no longer binding. Dominican politics returned to their pre-occupation status; and the struggle among competing caudillos resumed.
At this time, Trujillo was the commander of the National Army, which was called Ejército Nacional- the new designation of the armed force created under the occupation. In 1918, Trujillo rose quickly in the officer corps, while at the same time he built a network of allies and supporters. Unlike the more idealistic North American sponsors of the constabulary, Trujillo saw the armed force not for what it should have been--an apolitical domestic security force--but for what it was: the main source of concentrated power in the

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